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Repackaged Atlas reprints of white jungle adventurers, the title would in a few months become home for an entirely different new series, featuring Black Panther and a diversity of characters, and set in the mythical kingdom of Wakanda. New cover art by John Buscema, recognizable from the distinctive look of the beautiful damsel in distress, and Gil Kane, recognizable by the anatomy rendering and the massive calves.

For some reason, probably sluggish sales, Marvel paused publishing Captain Marvel with the August 1971 cover date and a 15 cent price. It was resumed over a year later in 1972, and so these are the only two picture frame Captain Marvel issues:

Today I won on E-Bay a Bronze Age key book in CGC 9.2 condition for the price essentially identical to the 12 month average for the issue in 9.0. It's by no means the only bronze age comic I've been able to buy recently for a favorable price, and is consistent with the overall trend for bronze age books noted in the data compiled and posted by DC#

For the first time and for a couple issues, the Inhumans get their own solo book. On the left is one of the few Marvels with November 1971 cover date that isn't a 25 cent giant-size ish.

Some people buy comic books with their discretionary money. They do it because they love the comics, love to build, own, and peruse their collection of comics, and do all of those without looking for a return on investment, since they weren't acquired as an investment in the first place. For investments, they buy and sell other assets, especially those traditionally and widely used for that purpose.

Bitcoin began the year at $16,000 and this morning is at $44,000. So there's plenty of new crypto money to put to work.

And what does this have to do with the depiction of women in Sleeping Beauty and Snow White needing a gallant prince to activate their desired lives? Or of the racist portrayal of Asian cultures in a Disney movie and a slew of comic books from a bygone era? Movies, comic books, books, and the like have for a hundred years been spreading messages from their points of view. The notion that things are different now in movies from Disney ignores this 100 year history. What I do agree with is that some of the more recent offerings from Disney lack the compelling storytelling, warmth, and charm that characterize so many of their successes from long ago. It's not a problem of messaging but one of moviemaking.

Prince Charming (Sleeping Beauty, Snow White): Young women need being saved by a man to make their lives worthwhile Lady and the Tramp: Siamese cats as a vehicle for stereotypical racist depiction of Asian cultures It's a pattern that pre-dates and is by no means restricted to early Disney filmmaking. Movies have been vehicles for messages and cultural concepts since their inception.

It's a unicorn book, a pedigree 9.8 with white pages for a mega key issue with only one other copy having received that numerical grade. I doubt the hammer price will suffer any from coming to auction after the overall market has peaked. And I wouldn't use the hammer price as any meaningful indicator of the status of the overall market, either. Heckuva copy. Thanks to DC# for the heads-up about it. The Newsboy copy of Showcase #4 is another unicorn in the auction that's not too shabby either. A shame that the Curator Spidey has got that pedigree label design that clashes with the cover colors and, for me at least, detracts from the comic itself.

I'm sorry for this to have happened, and hope you are successful recovering all or a large part of your slab collection.

I had to look him up, and glad to have done so. Few covers, but some spectacular ones.

Where else did you expect the thread to possibly go?

For those adding more data to the discussion, thanks! But all the data come with the caveat that books thinly bought and sold will have very few recorded sales, and so are much more prone to the variability that comes from each sale in general and also factors that affect sale prices, like selling source, page quality, eye appeal, number of comparably graded copies to reach market recently, and the like. I appreciate that the list compiled by DC# tries as much as possible to focus on books with relatively abundant sales data to reduce these sources of variation and generate comparative data that has more reliability.

The 9.0 has not just white pages, but an exceptional cover wrap and excellent cover color preservation. The CGC grade counts, but so does the eye appeal of the entire book. I'm not suggesting that the higher grade, superior eye appeal, and better page quality grade account for the entirety of the price difference. It's certainly a major part of it. On top of that, these aren't stocks trading to hundreds to thousands of buyers and sellers every day, and with relatively few sales there's always going to be a significant contribution of variance to the relative prices at which different comics sell at auction.

I'd put it in the VG range. I was thinking around a fine on the basis of the front cover, owing to the right side creases at both corners. But the back cover stains are a further grade deduction - the amount of deduction would depend on what the scans can't show, whether the stains affect the cover exterior only, bleed through to the inside cover, or also effect some interior pages.

Heh. But you might be surprised by what Marvel Tales #s 137 and 138 are fetching in top shape these days (although nothing at all like some of the Golden Record reprints, of course). The segment of today's slab market that I follow is the lower tier of the high grade Bronze. At CLink these are part of the Session 2 auction, where the material and the values don't make the cut for Session 1. And with the Marvels that sell in Session 2, I've been seeing falling prices over the entire year's worth of auctions. It's gotten to the point where I feel comfortable buying the occasional slabbed book for my raw picture frame Marvel collection, cracking them out as upgrades and not being concerned that at one time they were going for a lot more and that when they're eventually sold they won't fetch what they once did last year and before as slabs.

Starched collar. And gorgeous colors!

That's just pure fiction.

Science fiction.

More great Thor comics going back to Journey Into Mystery can be found in this thread:

That does sound like damage from being impacted within the well.

It's been my experience that scans like the one above are artifacts of the shadowing that the plastic holding tab casts on the edge of the book How does this example above look in person - is the edge actually bent all along the near-entirety of the bottom edge, or is it flat and natural looking? So while overhangs are certainly vulnerable to being damaged by shaken comic syndrome, scans like the one above aren't necessarily examples of it. Here's an example from the scan of a copy of FF #3 that I used to own. In person, it was easy to see that the top edge was straight and flat, and it only appeared bent by the shadow cast by the inner well plastic.

I just added another zero to the end of my asking price for this one: